ACCIDENT AND OPERATING EXPERIENCE AT INTERCHANGES

GEOMETRIC HIGHWAY DESIGN CAN BE EVALUATED ONLY IF THE RELATIVE MERITS OF THE DESIGN FEATURES CAN BE MEASURED IN SOME FASHION. A YARDSTICK IS NEEDED THAT WILL MEASURE THE VARIOUS DESIGN FEATURES. STUDIES HAVE BEEN UNDER WAY FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS TO EVALUATE INTERCHANGES BY THREE MEANS- ACCIDENT RECORDS, OPERATION, AND CAPACITY. INTERCHANGES CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO THREE BASIC ELEMENTS: (1) THE EXIT TERMINAL, (2) THE MAIN PORTION OF THE RAMP, AND (3) THE ENTRANCE TERMINAL. THIS PAPER ATTEMPTS TO SHOW HOW A VARIATION IN THE DESIGN OF THESE BASIC ELEMENTS AFFECTS OPERATION AND SAFETY. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrbbulletin/291/291-005.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • No 291, pp 124-138, 21 FIG. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Fisher, R L
• Conference:
  • 40th Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 1961-1-9 to 1961-1-13
• Publication Date: 1961

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 15p
• Monograph Title: Freeway design and operations
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Bulletin
  • Issue Number: 291
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Geometric design; Highway capacity; Highway design; Highway operations; Interchanges; Interchanges and intersections; Traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220232
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 16 1994 12:00AM